Ok, at long last, for your testing pleasure, the XFS Installer for Red
Hat Linux 7.2 is available in "prerelease" form... This installer
includes the latest 2.4.9-13 kernel update as well.
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/testing/RH7.2-installer/
rsync://oss.sgi.com/xfsftp/download/testing/RH7.2-installer/ should also
work, but rsync on oss seems to be stuffed up at the moment.
Many, many thanks go out to mkp@linuxcare, msw@redhat, and arjanv@redhat
for their help with this, as well.
Known issues:
* Grub support is dicey - sometimes it works, sometimes not.
(manually installing grub works fine, but there's a problem
with grub installation during setup). Lilo works fine.
Any of the grub-heads on the list want to look at this?
* Installer will let you put the bootloader on the first sector
of a partition - don't do this, only use the MBR.
* Boot floppy creation may not work, due to the size of an
xfs-enabled kernel.
* Some reports of problems with partition editing in text mode.
You will need the original Red Hat Linux installation media (both CDs)
to complete this installation. Back up your data first, and report
problems
to the list.
Have fun!
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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